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I haven’t done overnight oats in a long time. So when I saw Sarah’s information email saying that this month, the theme for the Fantastical Food Fight would be “Overnight Oats”, I just wanted to participate. I love overnight oats and since I have been on a quantified eating of late, swapping my rice with oats was usually not a preferred option, so oats had to take a limited offering at times. I don’t know how better I can explain this. 😀 Anyway, there were this persimmons that I had reserved to try this muffin recipe for the Bakeathon that concluded last month. However it didn’t happen, since I had no mood to bake them whatsoever. Happens, right? I just wanted to eat them rather than cook with them. Hehe… Then I thought, why not I use them in overnight oats? I decided to make a chocolate version,…

For the Blogging Marathon #84 under the “New Year Challenge” theme, I had chosen to share three overnight breakfast ideas and after the Chocolate Chia pudding, here is the second one. I have a lot of overnight oats recipes on the blog already on the blog, so it feels like I am adding one more, but of late, this has been my favorite way of having overnight oats. I have no other than Fami to “blame” for bringing in me this love for laban. Laban is thick buttermilk that is available across the shelves here in the Gulf countries. It is used a lot in Arab cooking, and is awesome to have on its own. I won’t say I love laban but I have it on and off. With she sharing her smoothies made in laban on her IG handle, I decided to get a bottle to try…

The days are literally dark now. The morning prayers – Fajr – is almost around 5:30. While it is time to send Rasha off to school, it is just like evening, the sun is not to be seen and the light is all faded away. It is getting cozier so waking up in the morning is getting tough and since the sun sets too fast, all I want to do is to go off to sleep once I land home, without even eating anything. But then you can’t do that when you have family to feed, right? 🙂 I totally love this season irrespective of the flu bouts going on. I love the cozy feel of this climate. Can’t wait for it to roll on completely… Till then, sharing a super easy breakfast for you. Overnight oats is usually my go-to breakfast at least once a week, since…

Time to write about the weather! Come October and my favorite part of the year starts. This month and the next are the best for all sorts of outdoor activities – barbeque, beach, road trips, just about anything. You can shun the malls and be out more. The sun doesn’t hit you hard even in the afternoons, which is such a joy and relief, Alhamdulillah. Even though we haven’t moving out much recently thanks to HD’s packed schedules, I am already looking at options to go on for the coming months – some long drives and trips that will keep the kids engaged and will free up our minds too. InShaAllah, let’s see how it goes… 🙂 Meanwhile, coming back to one of my favorite lazy breakfast – the overnight oats. I have already shared a few on the blog previously and today what I have is just…

A beautiful slide I found and wish to share… wish we could be at least a part as generous as the Creator of the sun! Another to the list of overnight oats for all of you to try. Banana and peanut butter is “marriage made in heaven”, as they call it. They just go very well with each other. All you need to do is combine them with your oats and have a magical experience! Peanut butter can be slightly tricky, so melt the butter in your microwave before you mix in, or else you may have a big blob in your oats the next day morning. 😉 Bananas and I are BFF – you give me a banana and I am a happy monkey! It is one of the fruits that will be there in my house any time of the year. Hehe… Posted on…

Just looking at the picture, I wish I was having that oats right away… hehe… My newly find love is dried figs. I used to never like figs before, despite knowing that they are one of the food mentioned exclusively in the Holy Quran. Once on a purchase spree, I bought some dried figs and tried them and then there was no looking back. This is now there on my grocery list as a regular purchase. Try substituting your biscuit and chai with two to three figs along with a few almonds as a mid-morning snack, and nothing like it, I tell you! It is so filling and really nutricious in its own way. Regular visitors of the blog may remember this delicious Anjeer Kheer that Farrukh had bought along during her guest post. This is hopefully a start to using figs more in my cooking. Before I move…

Mango season is already in and everybody is cooking with mangoes! Right or wrong? Oh, I am sorry… First we eat our mangoes and once we get bored of eating them just like that, we look at options of including them into our cooking. I guess, that is the right way! 🙂 Since the mango season is in, I thought, why not doing a 3 back-to-back recipe series on mangoes? Does that sound good? 🙂 I do have some mango recipes on the blog, which I will list up at the end of this post… but till then, let us enjoy this absolutely delicious overnight oats that is so apt for a wonderful morning! Overnight oats has become something that I have at least once a week, as it is a hassle free way of ensuring that breakfast is eaten. For people like me who are always on the…

For some food ideas, you have to thank our western compatriots. One of them is the introduction of kale for sure! Just like I enjoyed this Chocolate Kale Smoothie, I have juiced it another ways which I will share when the time comes… 🙂 Another one is overnight oats. The first time I saw the idea was on Jehanne’s blog and I was intrigued. No cooking? Only mixing? Wow! But would it taste raw? How would it be? I bombarded Jehanne with lots of questions during that time. As usual, she was patient with me and assured me that I would be hooked onto it once I try. My issue was getting rolled oats. Quick cooking oats is generally found all over the place and since she had suggested not to use that version for this, I kept searching wherever I went. Finally after long, I found it at…

Tenth of the month and it is time for the Muslim Food Blogger’s Challenge! This month, I decided to keep the theme really simple hoping for more participation. 🙂 The theme was breakfast… Breakfast is definitely one of the most important meal of the day. It is fuel to the body that has released itself of all the previous day food given to it for processing. Living in a country like UAE where life starts really early mainly by getting stuck in traffic for hours, most of us seem to just skip breakfast rather than trying to have it. But now I guess with changing mentalities on general health and fitness, everybody seems to be taking breakfast a little seriously. I am somebody who always carries something or the other in my bag to have it in the office, or if I don’t get the time, I would…

After the Chocolate Chia Pudding and the Laban Overnight Oats, here is the third overnight breakfast idea, for the Blogging Marathon #84 under the theme “New Year Challenges”. I have already shared an overnight smoothie recipe before. Like I mentioned in that post, an overnight smoothie is for people who want to eat oats but not in its bite format as is in most of the overnight oats. I had made this smoothie when I landed up with a papaya which was hardly sweet enough to keep in the mouth! I love papayas and each time I get a chance to eat it, I would have one whole without even sharing it! I have now one competition in the form of Rasha – I discovered her love for papaya this time when we were on vacation. She literally snatched the last piece of papaya right out of her…

You will still keep saying a lot of vegan stuff on this blog. Even though I am off from the diet, I still go for it when I don’t want to feel bloated or just want to go light. Very recently, a colleague of mine started Ayurveda for his skin treatment and now whatever I bring for them to eat, I have to make it vegan. 😀 So I still continue to explore it as much as I can. In fact, the thought that you can make desserts and dishes without eggs, milk and butter is definitely an encouragement. There was a time when baking without eggs and butter would have been considered “sacrilege” but not any more! 😀 But we ain’t baking anything today, but sharing with you an “overnight smoothie”. You must have read of overnight oats, but smoothie? Yes, the only difference is that instead…

I have been wanting to do a round up post since long time, but somehow I get so carried away with the drafts that I have. So I keep going on posting whatever I have to, but now I thought, with the month of Ramadan coming, why not I collect a few of my recipes and pool it at one place so that it becomes easier for all of you to find out. 🙂 “O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous. ” (Surah Al Baqarah: 183) Ramadan, I stress is not about eating, rather controlling your food intake for maximum benefit. A heavy Suhoor will not allow you to have a good working day. A heavy Iftar likewise will not give you the energy to go ahead with the long night prayers….

Blueberries are like my new found love. I have been buying them, eating them and adding them into everything and anything possible. So much as that my drafts even reflect how many blueberry recipes I have… hehe… Sharing with you some of the blueberry recipes already on the blog… Blueberry Smoothie Easy Blueberry Muffins Chocolate Blueberry Pudding Blueberry Cheesecake Popsicles Blueberry Chia Overnight Oats Blueberry Lassi This decadent, buttery loaf is adapted from here. I first baked this to carry it to my umma’s cousins house when we were invited for lunch. She totally loved the bake and was all praises about it. I then baked this once for her to carry it for my folks back home and also made half the recipe for a small cake for ourselves. The tangy blueberry bites in between the butter loaf is the highlight of this simple loaf. This is…

Remember the granola post a few days back? Well, this was one recipe I created with them. I so badly wanted to bake some granola bars with them, alas I ended up eating most of it with my milk and the kids finished off the rest by taking small bowls of them to munch on while watching cartoons. The pictures are not very clear since I was in a rush to carry them with me to office and sometimes, the camera acts really weird, as though it knows that time is limited! 🙁 I love breakfasts like these, just like overnight oats – you can find two ideas already on the blog here and here – which becomes easy and handy to carry to office especially when time in the morning is really too tight. The apricots can be substituted with any fruit – figs, berries, the choice…